BUCLZ i; ■ "Lfcarning to do Doing to learn Dick Dew President Buck Brown Vice President Charles Eal.iion Secretary r-i Advisor J. H, Wells "Earning to live Living to serve Eddie Joe Pitts Treasurer James Ray Lamin Reporter James Eatmon Sentinel fiRST f/'oETINGfiT PHRKER'S To open the- year's FFA activities, the Bailey chapter held its first meeting at Parker’s in Wilson, Members attending the supper voted to ’attend the State Fair and hold initi ation exercises on Septem ber 26, 1958. A new skill saw was also decided upon for use in the school shop, BOYS HONOR FPTHERS RT FRTHER-SON 8HNQUET Recently, the Bailey F. f, A. boys honored their fathers at the annual Fa- ther-Son Banquet held in the school cafeteria. Approximately 123 lathers, sons, and guests feasted over barbecue with all the trimmings, served by FHA girls."The Chapter wishes to thank very much the girls who served them and helped out on the banquet," expresses president Dick Dew, Evening cerraoniea fol- J.owed formal FFA procedure, and recognition was extend ed to all special guests. Following dinner the group was shown two films, "Model Farm" and a film showing simple ways to con- btruot efficient honie-fuade ' eqaipn.ent. FFfl Gf5 Participate In During the year, the Bailey FFA chapter has had an active part in four county-wide contests—crop •judging, tool indentifica- tion, land judging, and cattle judging. Members participating in the crop judging event in November were James Eatmon, Eddie Joe Pitts, Buck Brown, and Freddy Howell, Tool identification is limited to freshman and sophomore bojs and each chapter must choose by elimination its represen tative team. This year's groap consisted of "Shorty" Wells, Gerald Finch, Eddie Ray Creech, and Bill Boy- Kin, Federation teams met in Spring Hope in March were the land judging contest was held. Bailey boys who earned third’ place for the chapter were James Eatmon, Dick Dew, Cloyce Bunn, and Freddy Howell, BOYS TAKE 3 FIRST Dairy, Beef Cattle, and Swine teams each walked away with FIRST place in a Federation contest as Leg getts, Monday, April 13. In Dairy Cattle competi tion, Bailey scored i^Sol points to capture first, and, Whitakers was-,, second with U65. High individual for the entire contest was S©v©ral OoritcSti Lewis Wester, who scored a total of l85 points. Bailey took the Beef and Swine contests with IC.I4O pointsj Spring Hope was second with 1035. Tied for second high individual were Jimmy Finch and Ken neth Bissette, each having 355 points. These winning teams will compete in the District I contest Saturday, May 2, near Hertford, "The chapter is proud of these boys accomplishments states Jfr, Wells, frojectsHelp foise Funds Puring October chapter officers sold tickets for a barbecue chicken supper and the entire group took part in selling calendar ads, Purposes for the two fund raisings were to help buy FFA jackets for the offic ers and, to augment the general fund for operating the chapter, Approxiraately si)100 was cleared from the calendar ads project. 26 incoming i reshmen xjcro awarded their Oreen Hand pins on September 26, iy5£» following official initia tion cereminies.